"...No sound, except his sonorous pace,
Encouraged the traveller.
Your voice said to me: 'Keep walking!'

But my fearful heart, my dark heart,
Wept alone along that sad path;
Love, the delicious victor,

Reunited us in joy."

-- The Good Song

“...All truth is this: _three in one_, and there is no other truth.”

– From the January 6, 1902 diary entry of Léon Bloy in _Four Years of Captivity in Cochons-sur-Marne: 1900-1904_.

“...And if I threw back, as I desire,
My veil which promises, but refuses, ecstasy,
My fiery nakedness would resorb Lives.”

– “At Helenʼs Grave,” Swans, by Francis Vielé-Griffin.

… In the darkness and in the dust of the XXth century, at least one nation under God will need to preserve, in some form of reasonable unity, what all of Europe seems to have lost: the living need for Light and Beauty. – Léon Bloy, ca 1898

For a good idea of just What Is Fascism, more people (left and right of center, and in the center) should read the words of two authorities on the topic: Giovanni Gentile and Sergio Panunzio.

Reckless & dangerous rhetoric & "journalism" -- beneath the dignity, and professionalism, of the Economist.

To say a centrist of the Democrats would be the "real radical" -- when the party today is run by extreme socialists, radicals, anarchists, Antifa, BLM, anti-Semites.

You've lost your way.

Francine Cloarecʼs Funeral, a novella, feels like a painting: one steps back in time into a tableau by Monet or Renoir on reading it.

Benjamin Rozes, also a novella, is of similar style.

Both are light, entertaining, charming, and endearing.

This is a large print edition.

Lest anyone say that it is impossible to retract the 22nd Amendment, let us remember this:

The 21st Amendment, passed in 1933, retracted or undid the 18th from 1919 (Prohibition).

Cheers

Speaking of seeds, many seeds and plant samples were collected by Lewis and Clark and the Corps. of Discovery

Ourigan, Oregon is a poetical rendition William Clark's journal entries from the time the Corps. descended the Columbia River until they reached the Pacific Ocean (1805-6).

I look forward to an article by the Economist that has nothing negative, and only something positive to say about Trump.

Here was a perfect opportunity, but instead, it chooses to make up something bad that *may* happen. More prognostication with bias than news.

What an insulting way to talk about a person like Jensen Huang.

Aren't they? Seems like Putin threatens using them all the time, as does Respected Comrade Kim. It is among the Soviets a time honored tradition as far back as Khrushchev... and what about JFK?

Meloni is doing a GREAT job.

A new article (from Oct 29) on Raspail and The Camp of Saints is here: firstthings.com/the-romantic...

Also mentioned is Septentrion, which is a similar story but diff. cast of characters and diff. enemy. It too is available in English as of recently. It's beautifully told.

Have you read Septentrion yet? It is also by Raspail. It tells a similar story, but with a diff. enemy and diff. cast of characters.

See mention of it in this recent writer up on Oct 29: firstthings.com/the-romantic...

See a recent write up about Jean Raspail and The Camp of Saints here: firstthings.com/the-romantic...

Septentrion, also by Raspail, is a similar story (a dystopia) but with a different enemy: the enemy within. Also mentioned in the article.

Un autre très beau livre de Jean Raspail est Septentrion, qui est enfin disponible en anglais (pour ceux qui ne peuvent pas lire en français).